If she's cute, she's just an airhead. If she's not cute, then she's an idiot.
If she's cute, she's just an airhead. If she's not cute, then she's an idiot.
FYI, I don't find her attractive. She does kind of have an airhead voice though.Originally Posted by Kraco
So, to force myself out of my awful Funk, I decided to produce some art work in honor of my grandmother. I drank the sort of drinks she used to imbile and produced artwork she would have liked. I dedicated the entire weekend to it, at least a solid 30 hours.
and I gotta say, it helped a lot. And since, you guys helped me out, and I think you might be interested in what I produced I thought I'd post it here, as thanks and "hey look at this"
Digital rendering:
First Physical Rendering:
I'm in discussion with a local coffee house that I've been displaying artwork at, and after I have assurances that it will still be around, I will invest in a good canvas and nice acrylics so that I can reproduce the colors I made digitally.... And sell the work to the rich woman that frequent the shop. =D
Also, the piece it titled kinda for you guys and her:
Pop art is a bang! Coffee # 5.
Enjoy
When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle. ~Elizabeth West, Hovel in theHills
I like it, but I don't know what it's telling me.
My condolences to your grandmother as well.
I'm not sure it has to tell anything. I think its an excellent way to deal with your grief.
And since this is the bitching thread, some jackhole stole my bike yesterday :\
Last edited by rockmanj; Wed, 10-13-2010 at 10:00 AM.
I decided to stree-test my PC again for heat tolerance today with Prime and Furmark since the days have been getting hotter.
What's been established from previous tests:
Both the aftermarket coolers for the CPU and GPU do the job fine, but rather the bottleneck of my system's cooling capacity is the single undervolted exhaust that acts as the only means of active case airflow provision. The inside of the case gets hot. Very hot. But still within tolerable limits.
There was one time when the graphics card reached the max temperature limit due to this, and I fixed that by manipulating the case to increase the airflow vent area. Previous tests showed that it was sufficient for cooling.
What happened today:
Guess what happens when your single, undervolted exhaust fan fails during a stress test with a quad core and a Radeon 5870 while you're out on lunch?
Shit fucks up
The problem turned out to be a loose molex connection.. (yeah, wtf??). Anybody who's familiar with the Corsair series of power supplies would know of how their molex connectors are designed to allow for easier disconnection of molex sockets. In short, if you push this bit of plastic down, it'll pop the male and female connectors apart.
When you have such a connection at the back of the case behind the steel scaffolding (when you look at it from the "normal" side of an opened case), forcing the cover on can give that piece of plastic a little "push", and is what I assumed to have lead to the problem at hand.
I've changed the cabling around just a bit to avoid this problem now.
Less of a bitch, more as a word of caution.
Last edited by Buffalobiian; Sun, 10-24-2010 at 07:40 AM.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
So, you didn't actually fry anything? Still, I don't know how wise it's to dance on such a thin line.
I don't think anything fried, no.
What I did find out accidentally was that throttling happens when my cores sit for a while at >84C temps. I had previously thought they only kick in at the TJmax (99C), but it seems that's the physical damage threshold.
It took a little while to come to that conclusion since my cores can't normally reach such a high temp from pure CPU-stressing. I need to use gfx-stressing tools to push the internal case temps to oven-like temperatures in order to reach those numbers.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
85C is the general safe limit for cpu temps ( you can change this in the bios). At this temp it will start throttling, if it however can't bring the temp down, the pc should then shut down by itself.
The physical damage treshold is a bit higher than TJmax though, TJmax is just a safe reference so it doesn't ever fry. I once got my cpu up to 125C because of the cooler coming loose, it stayed at that temp for about a minute before just shutting down...no damage done.
But yeah as Kraco said, I wouldn't dance on such a thin line just to reduce some noise from the pc. The constant heat definitly degrades the overall life expectancy of your system.
It doesn't usually get that hot. Playing 45mins of MW2 for example only pushes both components to 60C tops.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Registered for spring semester classes (it rules to be a senior, first dibs on all classes). The difference in tuition for 11 hours and 12 hours is $900. What kind of bs is that? I don't think I even need to be full time, but the 1 hour class I'd take to get to 12 hours will cost me $900??
What's really goofy is that you can take up to 17 hours and not pay any more than what 12 hours costs. Makes no sense.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
Sounds like they either want you to attend 11 or 17 hrs.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
My bad roommate seems to enjoy playing shitty pop music at 7am every day for some reason (loudly). She also seems kind of lazy and absent minded as well (she loses or misplaces her keys or phone at least twice a week). The first I can talk to her about, but the other two issues...hmmm.
Maybe she's using it as some sort of time measurement? I play music when I wake up for school as well, simply cause I always know how much time has passed then >.>.
If it were not so loud, I would have no problem with it.
This is one of the many reasons I no longer have roommates. I know it's just little shit, but as the band Bush said, it's the little things that kill... tearing at my brain again... little little little... little little little... little little little...little little little... little little little...little little little... little little little...little little little... little little little...little little little... little little little...little little little... little little little...little little little... little little little... the song continues like this for another 5 minutes but you get the idea.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
Is your roommate Faye Wong?
<@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs
More importantly, is your roommate hot?
That's a pretty sad clip. I haven't seen the movie, but I can only imagine she's one of millions of Chinese youth who would love to leave their shitty little lives in their shitty little apartments in China for a life in America. Funny how so many foreigners want to move to Japan to live in a cramped little apartment box.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
I created a facebook page almost explicitly so I can play Bejeweled Blitz for free. Now when I try to access facebook a privacy settings window pops up, but when I click to continue it errors out. There's no other way to get rid of the window. Stupid facebook bullshit, I need my Bejeweled fix!!!!
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
Got a notice from my credit card company, some dillhole tried to buy something from a Mac store in Philadelphia using my credit card number. They declined his ass, but now my credit card is on hold pending security authorization (the bank has to call me to verify everything's ok, which of course they won't do until the holiday weekend is over). Luckily I ordered most of what I wanted and the orders were already processed before this scam happened, so I don't have to reorder everything, but now I'll have to get a new cc and scrap the one I've had for almost 10 years (I've memorized the full number so online ordering is easy).
The first indication to my cc company that something was amiss: someone buying shit from a Mac store. Apple products suck!
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
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